Senior News Writer, Public Relations

Megan Sexton joined the Public Relations unit (formerly Office of News and Internal Communications) in March 2010 after more than 27 years as a reporter and editor at daily newspapers in Columbia, Charlotte, N.C., and Myrtle Beach, S.C.

As a senior writer in the office, she coordinates coverage in the areas of student affairs, University Libraries, the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies and the South Carolina Honors College. She also serves as the editor in the Office of News and Internal Communications.

She is a New Jersey native who never left the South after arriving at the University of South Carolina in the fall of 1977. She graduated from USC in 1981 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Megan lives with her husband (a journalist) and two teenage sons in the Hollywood-Rose Hill neighborhood near the USC campus.